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Date:      Wed, 12 Nov 1997 01:04:57 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
To:        Nathan Vidican <nate@mnsi.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ppp troubles 
Message-ID:  <199711120104.BAA23301@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Nov 1997 19:08:27 EST." <3.0.3.32.19971111190827.006868b0@mnsi.net> 

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> the following is a CC from a note i posted on a newsgroup, (cannot remember
> name...using ms-news):
> 
> okay, i ran pppd, and it told me to look at a certain txt file, because my
> kernel has no support for ppp...I could not find this file..
> I am using user ppp, i then run term, dial my isp, it connects' and gives
> me my ip, the says packet ode on, and gives me
> <PPP on nate> 
> I then go to a different tty, and try t\ftp, telnet, or ping, nothing works.
> 
> I also get a warning when i type ppp "defaut entry not given in config
> file" i did edit /etc/ppp/ppp.conf for my isp, and for dynamic ip's, as
> instructed by freebsd faq. I also changed a few other files that effected
> what my isp's dns server was, however, i cannot  even ping an IP address?

Did you create yourself a ppp.linkup file ?  As the FAQ suggests, 
you'll need to give more information (a log file with command logs 
enabled and perhaps the output of ``netstat -rn'').

> Nathan Vidican
> (519) 728-4190
> nate@mnsi.net
> http://www.mnsi.net/~nate
> Diamond_C of DALNET
> 

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....





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